Capture video from vlc command line with a stop time

Question

I\'m trying to capture a video from an RPT stream to my pc (Ubuntu 12-04 LTS). I\'m using vlc from command line as below:

cvlc -vvv rtp://address:port --start

Answer 1

Yes, this is a limitation of the stop-time option. It only works with streams with a known length. As captured video doesn't have this information as it is live (or more precisely, the capture access module don't even try to add said information), the option won't work.

Patches are certainly welcome and sorry for the limitation.